knickerson

Yes, I have a 3cm hiatal hernia & chronic gastritis. They tried to give me Prilosec...but, I refused due to its severe side effect of complete kidney failure....I went to a natural supplement for healing. Although, this was not a major concern..I have been approved for surgery. Doc says gastritis needs healing before surgery so, I'm working on it...Hopefully, they will repair the hernia during surgery...Waiting for my date...I have read a lot of post regarding hernia & gastritis...it's quite common amongst overweight people..Who knew?? ;-/
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I am excited to chip off the layers and rediscover the person beneath. I would be lying to say that I wasn't worried as well.
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Day one of liquid pre-op diet down. Went better than expected. Only a couple of temptation moments but I was able to work through them.
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Finishing my first day pre-op, too. The sugar withdrawal is not fun, but I'm surviving. And I haven't killed anyone else, either, so that's good. I had to go to a staff meeting with a grilled cheese buffet, which was pretty tortuous, but I drank a Protein drink right before and made it through without breaking. 9 days to go!
VSG 1/20/17 HW: 325 CW: 305

Day one of liquid pre-op diet down. Went better than expected. Only a couple of temptation moments but I was able to work through them.
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I am excited to chip off the layers and rediscover the person beneath. I would be lying to say that I wasn't worried as well.
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I must have an AWESOME resting b!tch face because I was never treated differently fat or skinny. I was never bullied about my weight nor did I experience any negativity (excluding my own internal dialogue).

I didn't tell many people about my surgery and not one person asked me if I had it as I lost weight. People did ask what I was doing to lose the pounds and I simply told them that I was working with a doctor (true), following a high Protein low carb diet (true) and moving my a$$ a lot more (also true). If/when follow up questions were asked, my tone made it very clear that was the end of the discussion. Period. The few times people carried on an unwelcome conversation I simply told that that I was bored of talking about my weight but I'd be more than happy to talk about theirs. Oddly, the discussion ended abruptly.
I've recently started a new business - one that is very socially oriented - and my industry is often inundated with food deliveries, drinks, business lunches, cocktail hours, etc. For the first time (and I am 3.5 years out), people are noticing my smaller portions and my bizarre eating "behaviors" (like eating the meat out of a sandwich only, not grabbing a drink with lunch, skipping the dessert, etc.). This business if VERY people oriented and we are extremely focused on the details of people around us, so it's a bit startling at times. I've learned to grab a drink, a snack, a cookie, and then ignore it. I am open about my low carb ways so that's cut down on that conversation and now I get to hear about their latest and greatest diet attempts. People love to talk about themselves so it's easy enough to kindly steer the topic away from me and to them. These folks never knew me as a fatty so their questions/comments come from a different place than those who watched me lose, so it's definitely a different situation.
The more causally you handle these situations, the easier they are. Most of the "treatment" we receive is all in our heads. IN MY OPINION.